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She had me at: “There’s nothing wrong with Black nepotism.”The thesis statement stamps the tone for The Perfect Find, an edgier than average choice for a Netflix-and-chill romcom, and there’s so much irony intended in Gabrielle Union being the one to deliver the line. She is Jenna, a Manhattan It-girl recovering from the demise of a decade-long relationship that unfolded in New York newsprint.After a protracted self-imposed exile at her childhood home upstate, Jenna starts over in Brooklyn. To make rent, she walks into an…

via USA Films The best filmmakers never allow themselves to be pigeonholed into a single box, but even at that, nobody could have expected the director of frothy rom-coms Next Stop Wonderland and Happy Accidents to dive headlong into psychological horror and knock it right out of the park with Session 9. Then again, looking at what The Machinist, Vanishing on 7th Street, The Call, and Blood director Brad Anderson got up to over the next two decades, maybe we shouldn’t have been all that surprised. However, it…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press If you were to resurrect the tired storyline of a young couple having to meet their partners’ parents and were looking around for someone to play the gruff, disapproving future father-in-law, one name should definitely not pop out. Robert De Niro. Yes, he’s hysterical as the intense, no-nonsense, overprotective dad who’d make any suitor turned wide-eyed. Yes, he’s good at playing the role with the straightest of faces. We know that because he’s done it to great effect in “Meet the…

Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Sydney Sweeney shares a valuable lesson learned while filming the romantic comedy Anyone But You, and how inquiring minds quickly put her newfound wisdom to the test. Per IndieWire, the Euphoria star opened up about her overwhelmingly positive experience on set with director Will Gluck and her co-stars. “I feel like we just laughed every day. That’s what I learned, which was to have fun and be crazy and let loose and not be self-conscious about anything.” The tangible…

There is something about Céline Dion that melts the stoniest of hearts. The French-Canadian singer, arguably the queen of the power ballad, is over the top, completely unsubtle, soaring against the boundaries of taste. She is also cheekily sincere, a true weirdo and so committed to the bit that she makes extreme cheesiness fun.Such is the primary draw of Love Again, the big-screen adaptation of the German novel Text For You by Sofie Cramer, which packages a throwback romcom starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Outlander’s…

Priyanka Chopra and Sam Heughan's romantic-comedy Love Again released in US theatres on Friday and things are looking good for them. Directed and penned by by James C Strouse, the movie also marks the acting debut of singer Celine Dion. Going by the Twitter reviews posted by the moviegoers, fans have loved the chemistry between Priyanka and Sam. Many also raved about Sam going shirtless in the film. Also read: Nick Jonas can't stop gushing about Priyanka Chopra as Citadel becomes #1 series Priyanka Chopra and…

Image via Marvel Studios On Friday, the Guardians of the Galaxy as we know them will bid audiences adieu when their third film opens in cinemas. Before this, they had The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special and, if more does happen, one series star envisions a romantic piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoWl_S2npAQ While speaking with Screen Rant for an interview in the above footage, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 stars Karen Gillan and Pom Klementieff were asked about a tease in the trailers for the…

Adapted from the eponymous novel by BookTok favourite Taylor Jenkins Reid, this sanitised melodrama is so algorithm-baked and slathered in life lessons it makes butane-sniffing seem like the preferable option. Phillipa Soo plays Emma, a Massachusetts bookseller caught in the living hell of a Shang-Chi/Point Break sandwich: about to marry her childhood best friend Sam (Simu Liu), she is bowled over when previous hunk of a husband Jesse (Luke Bracey) – who went missing in a helicopter crash on their first wedding…

via Apple Everyone’s favorite duo is teed up for another adventure on Apple TV Plus tomorrow, with Ana de Armas and Chris Evans set to star in Ghosted, the upcoming action rom-com by Dexter Fletcher. In the film, the kind-hearted Cole (Evans) finds himself swept away on the most harrowing second date of his life when he learns that Sadie (de Armas), the woman he’s seeing, is a CIA agent tasked with halting a worldwide threat. Be it a revolutionary murder mystery (Knives Out), or a so-so action-thriller (The…

Thirty-six new romcoms are coming out this year on film and streamed TV. That’s three a month! There’s a boxing romcom, a tennis romcom, one set in Taipei, one on a Croatian island, one in Vietnam and one with a fortune teller. There’s one in the back of a Berlin cab, and a gay romcom about the son of the US president and a “British Prince Henry”.There’s a meet-the-parents story where it turns out the sets of parents, well, knew each other already. There’s one where the wedding party is taken hostage by gunmen; one where…